Jets take revenge on Panthers in Winnipeg, take down Florida 5-3

A valiant comeback effort by the Florida Panthers fell brief on Tuesday night time in Winnipeg.

The Jets gave their followers one thing to cheer about at Canada Life Centre, rebounding from Saturday’s shutout loss in Dawn by beating the Florida 6-3.

Regardless of the Panthers controlling play for a lot of the primary interval, it might be Winnipeg that got here away with the one targets.

First it was Kyle Connor leaping on a free puck in Florida’s zone and beating Sergei Bobrovsky with a backhand over his glove, after which simply over three minutes later, Mark Scheifele wired a wrist shot beneath Bob’s glove and over his pad from the fitting faceoff dot.

Florida led 8-3 in photographs on purpose on the 12:45 mark of first interval, and the one two photographs on purpose in the course of the the rest of the body have been the 2 that went into Florida’s web.

The sport might’ve modified considerably in the course of the second interval when each Uvis Balinskis and Evan Rodrigues have been known as for minor penalties on the identical play, giving the Jets a full two minutes of a two-man benefit.

Florida’s penalty kill got here up large in opposition to the Jets’ top-ranked energy play, killing off everything of each penalties thanks to 5 large saves by Bobrovsky, a pair of shot blocks by Gus Forsling and Aaron Ekblad, and a tremendous shift by Sasha Barkov.

Sadly for the Cats, they could have cashed in all their penalty kill good vibes as a result of later within the interval when given one other energy play probability, Scheifele one-timed his second purpose of the sport previous Bobrovsky give the Jets a 3-0 lead with 4:19 left within the center body.

A.J. Greer received the Cats on the board simply over 100 seconds later when his shot deflected off the skate of Adam Lowry and previous Connor Hellebuyck.

Hey, slightly puck luck by no means damage anybody.

It might’ve helped Barkov, who hit the purpose put up twice within the span of a couple of minute early within the third interval, nevertheless it was all good as a result of moments later, Sam Reinhart completed off a fairly passing play with a slot shot that beat Hellebuyck to convey the Cats inside one.

An offensive zone penalty by Eetu Luostarinen gave Winnipeg an influence play proper after the purpose.

The puck stayed in Florida’s zone for the complete two minutes and the Cats by some means pulled off the kill, however the exhausted Panthers couldn’t get the puck out of the zone and broke down across the web, resulting in a large open Scheifele finishing his hat trick.

With 4:04 to go, Josh Morrissey tripped Niko Mikkola, giving Florida a late energy play of their very own.

Panthers Head Coach Paul Maurice stored Bobrovksy on the bench to provide the Cats a two-man benefit, and so they cashed in because of a candy shot by Matthew Tkachuk and an excellent display screen by Barkov with 3:22 to go.

One other Cats energy play with 2:15 to go would give some hope, however Winnipeg scored into Florida’s vacated web to make it 5-3 Jets with 1:37 to go.

They added one other ENG for good measure, taking the sport 6-3.

On to Chicago.

QUICK THOUGHTS

Reinhart prolonged his level streak to 11 video games, now with 9 targets and 17 factors in the course of the run.

Barkov’s level streak is now at 9 video games as he assisted on Reinhart’s purpose. He has racked up three targets and 17 factors on his streak.

Nate Schmidt has 4 factors over his previous six video games after helping on Greer’s second interval purpose.

Schmidt additionally picked up factors in each of Florida’s video games in opposition to Winnipeg.

After recording simply two assists in 11 October video games, Greer has two targets and 4 factors in eight video games this month.

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